At Top Banana

Lauren Taylor – Director

Lauren is a highly experienced dance teacher and choreographer with over 20 years of experience.  Children love her classes due to her positive energy, caring nature and creative flair.

Lauren trained professionally as a dancer at Trinity Laban, London and gained a BA(Hons) in Dance Theatre. She then graduated from LIPA with an MA and has gained valuable teaching qualifications with Royal Academy of Dance, IDTA, Acrobatic Arts and Cirq Du Kidz.

She has wealth of experience teaching and choreographing in Musical Theatre and Ballet due to her position of Creative Learning Officer at the Liverpool Empire Theatre, ATG.

Her teaching and performing career has taken her to London, South Africa, Holland and Liverpool, and she is very happy to put down roots teaching the wonderful children and adults in Sheffield.

Monica Marsden – Acro and Street Dance Teacher

Monica is a qualified teacher with Acrobatic Arts and in addition to Acro she can also teach Contemporary and Commercial Dance. She is passionate about sports and always introduces fun games into the Acro warm-ups, keeping classes fresh and fun.

Monica graduated from Gloucestershire University with a First Class BA(Hons) degree in Dance. Her choreography is creative and imaginative, and the children love her upbeat style and music choices.